Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson has replayed one moment from the night Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed more times than she can count — and years later, she says it still follows her.
According to Fox News, the longtime Murdaugh family housekeeper, whose new book chronicles her close bond with Maggie and the aftermath of the murders, says a white pickup truck near the family’s Moselle property remains the image she cannot forget.
“The part that really haunts me,” she told Fox News Digital, “was not looking into that white truck that was parked out there by the hangar.”
At the time, she assumed the truck belonged to Paul and didn’t think to check it. But once she heard trial testimony placing Paul’s phone miles away, the memory shifted.
“When I heard testimony during the trial where they specified that Paul’s phone was dinging in Okatie, I said, well, who was driving that truck? Who was driving the white truck? The white F-150? That’s one of the main ones that bothers me.”
Turrubiate-Simpson’s book, Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship, recounts the small details she noticed in the hours after Maggie and Paul were shot to death near the kennels. She said one of the first things that stood out was Maggie’s car — parked in a spot she never used.
“Maggie used to always pull up to the left of Paul,” she said. “But that morning, Maggie’s car was to the right… kind of where the hunting room entrance is. I knew she didn’t put it there.”
She said nothing about the placement made sense.
“There was no need for her to park there when there were no other vehicles really there.”
Despite her unease, Turrubiate-Simpson said she didn’t believe Alex Murdaugh was responsible — until she watched Deputy Daniel Greene’s body-camera footage during the trial. Her husband urged her to view it, and within seconds, she noticed something chilling.
“I saw one of the towels that I had washed, that was going to be going back to Edisto,” she said. “In a glimpse, something caught my eye.”
She asked her husband to rewind the footage.
“And I told my husband, ‘Go back, go back, go back.’… I said, ‘He did it.’”
The towel, she said, should not have been inside the family’s Suburban unless Alex had grabbed it during a frantic effort to clean himself up.
“To me, that towel being there made no sense unless he grabbed it,” she said.
She added that Alex’s demeanor that night didn’t resemble the man she had known for so long.
“His demeanor didn’t match up with the nurturing, loving father that I saw within the home.”
While she stops short of claiming Alex had help in the murders, she writes in her book that she believes he may have had assistance afterward.
“My theory in the book is that he had help to clean, possibly setting up,” she said. The distance between the house and kennels, she noted, “takes a good few minutes” to travel, and the timeline never added up for her.
Still, she emphasizes that she’s unaware of any evidence proving Alex received help.
Her purpose, she said, is not to stir speculation — but to make sure the victims remain centered in the public’s memory.
“I wrote this book because of Paul and Maggie,” she said. “I don’t want her forgotten… The two victims have been forgotten in all of this.”
The South Carolina Supreme Court is set to hear Alex Murdaugh’s appeal on Feb. 11, after his legal team claimed he did not receive a fair trial due to alleged jury tampering. Turrubiate-Simpson says she supports the legal process.
“I think we all deserve a fair trial,” she said. “If they determine that he did not receive one, then we just must follow through. It’s the law.”
As for the wave of TV dramatizations, she isn’t interested.
“I’ve watched some documentaries,” she said. “But I don’t feel the need to watch the Hulu series because I lived it. There’s no point in watching something that I already lived.”
